The success or failure of a life, as far as posterity goes, seems to lie in the more or less luck of seizing the right moment of escape. Alice James on failure
One has a greater sense of degradation after an interview with a doctor than from any human experience. Alice James on medical
How sick one gets of being 'good,' how much I should respect myself if I could burst out and make everyone wretched for twenty-four hours embody selfishness. Alice James on respect